Birthdays: Richard the LionHearted, Michel Caravaggio,
Antonin Dvorak, Patsy Cline, Jimmy Rogers the Singing Brakeman, Peter Sellars,
Sid Caesar, Freddy Mercury, Lyndon LaRouche, Ewell Gibbons- natural food
advocate, Heather Thomas, David Arquette is 44, Jonathan Taylor-Thomas, Pink is
36, Alvy Ray Smith is 72
1504- Michelangelo unveiled his completed statue of David.
The project had humble origins. The Florentine Republic had commissioned a
statue from another artist who gave up after gouging a large hole in a huge
block of Carrarra marble. Stuck with the block, magistrates asked Michelangelo
if he could do anything with it. Michelangelo carved the David positioning the
hole where the legs stand spread.
1926- Screen actress Greta Garbo
skipped her own wedding and left John Gilbert alone at the altar. They still
stayed lovers and lived together.
1930 - Richard Drew creates Scotch
tape.
1935-A vocal group called "4 Joes from Hoboken"
get their first break on Major Bo's radio show. One of the singers is a young
man named Frank Sinatra.
1939- British film director Alfred Hitchcock began shooting
his first Hollywood picture- Rebecca, for David Selznick.
1954- Akira Kurosawa’s film The
Seven Samurai premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
1960- Penquin Books was charged with obscenity for the first
large public paperback printing of D.H. Lawrence's 'Lady's Chatterley's Lover'.
1965 - Dorothy Danridge, beautiful
black actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in
Hollywood of sleeping pills
overdose.
1966- T.V.'s STAR
TREK debuts. That season it ranked 52nd in the Neilsen ratings, behind #1
"Iron Horse" starring Rory Calhoun and "Mr. Terrific". It
was canceled after two seasons but a letter writing campaign won it a third
season. Star Trek then found a new life in syndication.
The cult fan base called Trekkies kept the memory of the
show alive for ten years until Paramount felt compelled to revive to cash in on
the Star Wars craze. First as an animated series and then from 1979 a series of
feature films, then spin-offs. Frank Sinatra once said: "The only good
thing to come out of the Nineteen Sixties was Star Trek."
1966 - "That Girl"
starring Marlo Thomas and Ted Bessell premieres on ABC-TV
1968 - "Funny Girl"
premiered, starring a young singer named Barbra Striesand.
1979- Jean Seberg, actress
(Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40. She had been in love with a
member of the radical Black Panther Party and was under continual harassment by
the FBI and other Federal authorities.
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